tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899Mon, 14 May 2018 08:55:30 +0000AndGeneralhER TRkwTall CottonJust stuff about life, politics, and my disposition in general....http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)Blogger2879125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-3818896181323250009Sat, 05 May 2018 00:16:00 +00002018-05-04T19:21:26.671-05:00Censored These are some of the videos that FB has deemed offensive and demanded I delete them.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qVjmktNM_-M/WuzpVTQheqI/AAAAAAAAGL4/YyXTVB-OEQMHSsxTgN505gCrS8yc6ZfagCLcBGAs/s1600/2%2BReasons%2Bwe%2Bhave%2Bterrorists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="805" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qVjmktNM_-M/WuzpVTQheqI/AAAAAAAAGL4/YyXTVB-OEQMHSsxTgN505gCrS8yc6ZfagCLcBGAs/s320/2%2BReasons%2Bwe%2Bhave%2Bterrorists.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cpGpYjy-w_M/Wuzpksf0hhI/AAAAAAAAGL8/R_A_DfzVMdsVKUXiyFuhhTeEv4upEDccgCLcBGAs/s1600/ATT00195.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="307" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cpGpYjy-w_M/Wuzpksf0hhI/AAAAAAAAGL8/R_A_DfzVMdsVKUXiyFuhhTeEv4upEDccgCLcBGAs/s320/ATT00195.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ii_Bwjg8i70/Wuzpw6VwM8I/AAAAAAAAGME/KA8G1MEYC3AHHwRgi3_m6BlBH8zqNVGkwCLcBGAs/s1600/10645199_10152432775963432_8360290450695988913_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="800" height="280" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ii_Bwjg8i70/Wuzpw6VwM8I/AAAAAAAAGME/KA8G1MEYC3AHHwRgi3_m6BlBH8zqNVGkwCLcBGAs/s320/10645199_10152432775963432_8360290450695988913_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z2sFOp3ieAs/Wuzp6v0yEJI/AAAAAAAAGMM/Mt_pzun9_QUo9lhp-TkWkIkFmClVUgZsQCLcBGAs/s1600/12650957_1008604345876689_3026752157899186893_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="838" height="196" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z2sFOp3ieAs/Wuzp6v0yEJI/AAAAAAAAGMM/Mt_pzun9_QUo9lhp-TkWkIkFmClVUgZsQCLcBGAs/s320/12650957_1008604345876689_3026752157899186893_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gb00f9Icf_0/WuzuhpO1N8I/AAAAAAAAGMc/EvteoWwUduwxEsGMzU7xt-VGnL3NrT6vQCLcBGAs/s1600/cat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gb00f9Icf_0/WuzuhpO1N8I/AAAAAAAAGMc/EvteoWwUduwxEsGMzU7xt-VGnL3NrT6vQCLcBGAs/s320/cat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gq7vqH9S8mw/WuzunJYFlSI/AAAAAAAAGMg/vIsxq59X3VMcbJuQrEB4upVXtGlmwdcRwCLcBGAs/s1600/Captain%2BObvious.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="134" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gq7vqH9S8mw/WuzunJYFlSI/AAAAAAAAGMg/vIsxq59X3VMcbJuQrEB4upVXtGlmwdcRwCLcBGAs/s1600/Captain%2BObvious.jpg" /></a></div><br />But the one that really gets my goat is the Heinlein quote that puts entertainers and athletes in their place.<br /><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2018/05/these-are-some-of-videos-that-fb-has.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-3606802585231172379Sat, 10 Mar 2018 16:58:00 +00002018-03-10T11:01:04.884-06:00Avoid the question and change the sunbject....<div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This comes from the Tennessee Star article and is from governor candidate Randy Boyd.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Many of our universities are not at capacity. If you’ve got a hotel, and you have 30 percent empty rooms, you don’t charge 300 percent more to those last few rooms. The variable cost is fairly small in filling those up. We’ve got a lot of those universities that would actually make a significant amount of money charging just the normal, full tuition – rather than charging a penalty of triple”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a perfect example of a politician using what is called a “False Equivalency.”&nbsp; The issue in question is should we give in state tuition to illegal aliens attending state schools. His argument is that doing so would fill the schools’ empty seats. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This raises several questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why is tuition for citizens so high? If the problem is price why not lower the costs for everyone and fill the seats?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why did the schools over build? If you fill the seats, at whatever price, won’t the schools launch a new building program and create another “empty seat” problem?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Is it a price problem or a content problem? In marketing if a product is not being purchased it is normal for the product to be closely looked at to determine why it isn’t selling.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And isn’t the real issue, why aren’t we serving Tennessee citizens better, rather than how can we serve illegal aliens better?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://tennesseestar.com/2017/12/25/randy-boyd-looking-for-a-way-to-give-illegal-aliens-in-state-college-tuition/<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2018/03/avoid-question-and-change-sunbject.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-2378190166465796414Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:33:00 +00002017-08-18T09:33:57.033-05:00Who's next? <br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Baltimore takes down Confederate statues in middle of night”</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/baltimore-takes-down-confederate-statues-in-middle-of-night</span><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GdNqQTwVyok/WZb5ETdSwKI/AAAAAAAAGHQ/uXKvg1iK3bgeUmypCM5PQG7UyEcBj-IPwCEwYBhgL/s1600/375601_282873858486436_386013118_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GdNqQTwVyok/WZb5ETdSwKI/AAAAAAAAGHQ/uXKvg1iK3bgeUmypCM5PQG7UyEcBj-IPwCEwYBhgL/s320/375601_282873858486436_386013118_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because I was not a Socialist.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— </span><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because I was not a Trade Unionist.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— </span><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because I was not a Jew.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">------Martin Niemöller</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If unpopular views are not allowed, who will decide what is popular?</span><br /> <br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/08/whos-next.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-858357189112735570Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:20:00 +00002017-08-03T12:20:43.826-05:00Tiresome BS from the Chattering Class<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GmUJsNTsqns/WYNa9XViJKI/AAAAAAAAGGs/XCHCp6pIQsoWMZ9-7UEROWdIy6Y-WPKfQCLcBGAs/s1600/Abbott%2Band%2BCostello.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="254" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GmUJsNTsqns/WYNa9XViJKI/AAAAAAAAGGs/XCHCp6pIQsoWMZ9-7UEROWdIy6Y-WPKfQCLcBGAs/s1600/Abbott%2Band%2BCostello.bmp" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If I have heard it once I have heard it a thousand times from the “media class.” It goes like this and is not limited to Lefties or Righties as well as the two or three in the middle.</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Trump is getting in the way of his own message.”</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The crux of this is that the audience is not capable of entertaining multiple messages at the same time. That is nonsense. People hear/see/read information all the time and act on the inputs. It is the “media class” who can’t adjust to the new world and just be an information conduit.<span style="margin: 0px;">&nbsp; </span>They believe that it is their job to tell us what they think happened or was said.</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This stems from the “journalism” disease that has infected most reporters. Their self-importance knows no bounds. Just as salesmen became account managers reporters became journalists. Supposedly this signified that had attended a journalism school.</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">However, technology rules and change happens. Among the many jobs destroyed by the Internet were telephone operators, travel agents and many retail clerks. </span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A few years back the average newspaper reader would read the editorial page and a few columnists during the week. Many people did neither. The Internet opened up multiple inputs to the average person. Trump understood this and tapped into it. He is now President.</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He can twitter in the morning about one thing while yesterday he announced something else. This bothers no one except the media who seemingly want only to write about something else. </span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr. or Ms “Journalist”, say hello to the dinosaurs.</span></div><br /><b><br /></b>"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/08/tiresome-bs-from-chattering-class.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-1687537136042412075Sat, 10 Jun 2017 16:17:00 +00002017-06-10T19:35:36.652-05:00Deconstructing Tomey <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X-dT9GaZNYo/WTwZf1fGwfI/AAAAAAAAGF0/rDxceUwLZ9Y33stdC3sCvr_2k2zzuv7LwCLcB/s1600/18119194_1321728097882216_1682583345068358976_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="261" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X-dT9GaZNYo/WTwZf1fGwfI/AAAAAAAAGF0/rDxceUwLZ9Y33stdC3sCvr_2k2zzuv7LwCLcB/s1600/18119194_1321728097882216_1682583345068358976_n.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve been ignoring my old bud, Dark Avenger, for years. And while you would think that when nothing new is published on a unimportant blog for months then the reader would give up and not visit the blog much less comment on whatever deep &nbsp;thoughts I have written after a long time off.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But no. True to form he (she?) visits me and, as per usual, goes off topic to attack something Limbaugh said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s the post with comments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lesson-in-morals.html?showComment=1497101493675#c1556807907677995464">https://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lesson-in-morals.html?showComment=1497101493675#c1556807907677995464</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you’ve taken the trouble to read it you would know that it has nothing to about Limbaugh or Kennedy or the Soviets. It is just me pointing out that if you believe that your boss has violated the law and/or harmed the country there is a proper way to respond and it isn’t hard to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You tell your boss. And if the boss doesn’t respond properly you call up some reporters and tell them you are resigning because….<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s called, “Doing the right thing.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course this whole deal was, and is, a lie. It is just politics. That it harms the country and goes far beyond being the “loyal opposition” is the only fact. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But Tomey didn’t do that. When his boss, Loretta Lynch, told him to refer to the Clinton investigation as a “matter” he followed orders. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Following orders as a justification has a long and terrible history. It was the German Excuse. And I’ll bet it was the excuse of Pol Pot’s followers and Mao’s and every follower of every mass murderer in history. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This isn’t me. I’m just following orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tomey had to know when Lynn directed him to down play the Hillary investigation that Lynch was obstructing justice. But he ignored that. But he couldn’t totally do that when Lynch and Bill Clinton had their meeting prior to Hillary being interviewed. But did he instruct the agents to keep a record of the interview? No he did not.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But, to his credit, it did bother him. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So he went public with all the damning facts about her private server and how its use violated the law and he would recommend she be indicted…..Oppps… Of course he didn’t do that. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What he did was decide to put out all the details but claim that since there was no intent she could not be indicted. Which, of course, is horse hockey. &nbsp;And the Repubs hated him and the Demos loved him. What he had done was to turn it over to the public. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Here’s the facts, Joe and Jane. You be the judge. My hands are clean.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And that appeared to be that.&nbsp; But then enough stuff came to light that Tomey’s conclusions of the summer were suddenly doubtful in the fall. What would happen if Hillary was elected and then impeached? Tomey’s part would be played and replayed and his judgment would be shown to be awful.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So he decided to reopen the investigation. And his Demo friends hated him and his Repub enemies suddenly loved him and the election happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t know if the October surprise defeated Hillary. While it didn’t help I think the real reason was that she was a terrible candidate who had worn out her welcome and the reopening just reminded enough people of all the scandals, from Whitewater on, that are tied to the Clintons. Enough people just said, “Enough is enough. Trump may be all the bad the media says he is but he isn’t a Clinton.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So what is Tomey? Tomey is all in for Tomey. Look at the proof. He now wants to protect the FBI. Really?Yet last year he tossed the question of Hillary’s crookedness back to the voters when everyone knew that Hillary was the next Prez. But when the FBI’s, and by extension his, actions could be at risk in late October, he changed horses.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But then, to make things worse, when the Demos started their crusade to impeach Trump he decided he wouldn’t say that Trump was not being investigated. Look what happened the last time he decided to say that someone couldn’t be indicted. Worse, what would happen to him if the Demos managed to oust Trump? Revenge is indeed best served cold and he could see the Demos just dying to get to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So when he could have said, “Knock it off. Trump is not under investigation,” and let the whole thing die, he played along. &nbsp;What a dog’s life he was living running back and forth between the embedded political power case, the media and the Demos and many RINO's.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But he misjudged Trump. Trump doesn’t and didn’t play by the rules and Tomey has damaged his legacy beyond repair and the Demos have played their trump card to early in the 2018 elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 148.25pt;">"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “</div>http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/06/deconstructing-tomey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-7146594079571908511Tue, 23 May 2017 13:24:00 +00002017-05-23T08:24:47.487-05:00Sometimes I feel like a nut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tb6BfGVk0Qw/WSBTKUHx-TI/AAAAAAAAGEQ/JMbNfI9fJY0kVEnQtT4JYeL2Br6PVxA8QCLcB/s1600/search.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tb6BfGVk0Qw/WSBTKUHx-TI/AAAAAAAAGEQ/JMbNfI9fJY0kVEnQtT4JYeL2Br6PVxA8QCLcB/s1600/search.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;">Got the following from my bud Mike Lamp....</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">"Paraprosdokians" are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected... frequently humorous. Winston Churchill loved them.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.</div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px;">2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people&nbsp;appear bright until you hear them speak.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.&nbsp;Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">10. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, Notify:' I put 'DOCTOR'.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">11. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">13. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure..</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">14. To be sure of hitting the target,&nbsp;shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">15. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">16. You're never too old to learn something stupid.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">17. I'm supposed to respect my elders, but&nbsp;its getting harder and harder for me to find one now.</div></div><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/05/sometimes-i-feel-like-nut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-5652403394915915301Mon, 22 May 2017 13:54:00 +00002017-05-22T08:54:38.441-05:00AMERICAN WORKING IN MEXICO<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 151.05pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hz6lNxyYzRU/WSLsdSHEI8I/AAAAAAAAGFQ/llf6iOP4Da4uwYOYT7g0dKIcu2wKvAUxQCLcB/s1600/Protester.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hz6lNxyYzRU/WSLsdSHEI8I/AAAAAAAAGFQ/llf6iOP4Da4uwYOYT7g0dKIcu2wKvAUxQCLcB/s320/Protester.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif;">Got this from Larry P. Been meaning to post it...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 151.05pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Before any more 'outrage' at the Arizona law . . . read what it's like from the other side of that fence...I Received the following from Tom O'Malley, who was a Director with S.W. BELL in Mexico City :</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="background: white;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I spent five years working in Mexico. I worked under a tourist Visa for three months and could legally renew it for three more months.<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>After that you were working illegally. I was technically illegal for three weeks waiting on the FM3 approval.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"During that six months our Mexican and U.S. attorneys were working to secure a permanent work visa called a 'FM3'. It was in addition to my U.S. passport that I had to show each time I entered and left the country. Barbara's was the same, except hers did not permit her to work.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"To apply for the FM3, I needed to submit the following notarized originals (not copies):</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Birth certificate for Barbara and me.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Marriage certificate.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">3. High school transcripts and proof of graduation.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">4. College transcripts for every college I attended and proof of graduation.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">5. Two letters of recommendation from supervisors I had worked for at least one year.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">6. A letter from the St. Louis Chief of Police indicating that I had no arrest record in the U.S. and no outstanding &nbsp;warrants and, was "a citizen in good standing".</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">7.Finally, I had to write a letter about myself that clearly stated why there was no Mexican citizen with my skills and why my skills were important to Mexico .</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We called it our 'I am the greatest person on Earth' letter. It was fun to write.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"All of the above were in English that had to be translated into Spanish and be certified as legal translations, and our signatures notarized. It produced a folder about 1.5 inches thick with English on the left side &amp; Spanish on the right."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Once they were completed, Barbara and I spent about five hours, accompanied by a Mexican attorney, touring &nbsp;Mexican government office locations and being photographed and fingerprinted at least three times at each location, and we remember at least four locations where we were &nbsp;instructed on Mexican tax, labor, housing, and criminal law and that we were required to obey their laws or face the consequences.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We could not protest any of the government's actions or we would be committing a felony. We paid out four thousand dollars in fees and bribes to complete the process. When this was done we could legally bring in our household goods that were held by U.S. Customs in Laredo , Texas .</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This meant we had rented furniture in Mexico while awaiting our goods. There were extensive fees involved here that the company paid."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We could not buy a home and were required to rent at very high rates and under contract and compliance with Mexican law."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We were required to get a Mexican driver's license. This was an amazing process. The company arranged for the licensing agency to come to our headquarters location with their photography and fingerprint equipment and the laminating machine. We showed our U.S. license, were photographed and fingerprinted again and issued the license instantly after paying out a six dollar fee. We did not take a written or driving test and never received instructions on the rules of the road. Our only instruction was to never give a policeman your license, if stopped and asked. We were instructed to hold it against the inside window away from his grasp. If he got his hands on it you, would have to pay ransom to get it back."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We then had to pay and file Mexican income tax annually using the number of our FM3 as our ID number. The &nbsp;company's Mexican accountants did this for us and we just signed what they prepared. It was about twenty legal size pages annually."<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br /></span><span style="background: white;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The FM3 was good for three years and renewable for two more after paying more fees." &nbsp;</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Leaving the country meant turning in the FM3 and certifying we were leaving no debts behind and no outstanding legal affairs (warrants, tickets or liens) &nbsp;before our household goods were released to customs." <br /></span><span style="background: white;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"It was a real adventure and if any of our Senators or Congressmen went through it once, they would have a different &nbsp;attitude toward Mexico ."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Mexican government uses its vast military and police forces to keep its citizens intimidated and &nbsp;compliant. They never protest at their capitol or government offices, but do protest daily in front of the United States Embassy. The U.S. Embassy looks like a strongly reinforced fortress and during most protests the Mexican military surrounds the block with their men standing shoulder to shoulder in full riot gear to protect the Embassy. These protests are never shown on U.S. or Mexican TV. There is a large public park across the street &nbsp;where they do their protesting. Anything can cause a protest such as proposed law changes in California or Texas ."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Please feel free to share this with everyone who thinks we are being hard on the illegals. Right!! Most Americans of the liberal left persuasion would never understand this..Most are blind to this reality.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/05/american-working-in-mexico.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-2143129607579677768Sat, 20 May 2017 19:33:00 +00002017-05-21T07:20:24.212-05:00How the Constellation became star of the skies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fZhBP7puWdc/WSCZzLVwNnI/AAAAAAAAGE8/5MHR9ZAlKQUuhFD23WaatlosPf9ZkXGGQCLcB/s1600/0811184.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fZhBP7puWdc/WSCZzLVwNnI/AAAAAAAAGE8/5MHR9ZAlKQUuhFD23WaatlosPf9ZkXGGQCLcB/s320/0811184.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We called them “Willy Victor,” short for WV2/EC121. Here’s a nice article written by Lockheed that has some history of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/100years/stories/constellation.html">http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/100years/stories/constellation.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;">The Connie was a sweet ride and could handle the weather and all the other problems presented by flying around the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. &nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But the article barely mentions the early warning flights flown out of Keflavik by VW-11 and VW-13. The two squadrons were based in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Argentia, NFLD</span></div>and deployed to&nbsp;<a 18.4px="" href="https://www.blogger.com/%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20style=" line-height:="">;</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Keflavik, Iceland&nbsp;</span>for flights to the east and west looking for Soviet aircraft and missiles. The Air Force had other barriers and the Navy had barriers in the west out of Midway. There were land based radar sites in Alaska, Canada and Greenland.<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, boys and girls, once upon time there was a “Cold War” and it was as serious as it gets. Well, as you know, we didn’t catch any ICBM’s heading for the US but did report a few Russian “Bear” bombers who seemed to run a regular route down to Cuba who had, a few years before, helped the Soviet’s try and install missiles that could hit any target within the US before we could launch a retaliatory strike. That was kind of important because there was this thing called Mutually Assured Destruction – MAD. The plan was that if each side could destroy the other, and being rational people, then neither side would launch a first strike.&nbsp; But just in case, we watched. If I remember right if we caught them launching we could give early warning which would let us launch back… The needed warning&nbsp; time was around 15 minutes…and there would be no second chances.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Notice the “being rational people.” That doesn’t work with radical Islam. One of the things I would do is tell the Muslim countries that if the shit keeps up we will take out Mecca or Medina…..or maybe both. Then torch off a couple of nukes in the deserts and maybe one off the coasts of Indonesia just to be sure everyone got the message. Hopefully that would rationalize the Muslim world and they would deal with radical Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But enough current events. Here’s a short amateur film showing some grainy shots of “Willy Victors” flying in and around Newfoundland. If you look close enough you can see where my wife and I lived for a while with our two girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lord I’d like to go back and do it again.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ac6WYLkX3U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ac6WYLkX3U</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 115.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">&nbsp;</span>"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper&nbsp;</div>http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-constellation-became-star-of-skies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-3936115647039822352Sat, 20 May 2017 16:18:00 +00002017-05-20T11:29:45.558-05:00We have a winner!<br /><header class="comment-header" style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><div class="comment-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A group of Swedish diplomats moved the celebration of their national holiday forward an entire month to stop the date clashing with Ramadan."</span></span><br /><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9urOYtmiXgg/WSBrw238aWI/AAAAAAAAGEg/t5fvRy-M-twHyRXe6iue22ptyWhjDiy6ACLcB/s1600/Golden%2BTurd%2BAward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9urOYtmiXgg/WSBrw238aWI/AAAAAAAAGEg/t5fvRy-M-twHyRXe6iue22ptyWhjDiy6ACLcB/s1600/Golden%2BTurd%2BAward.jpg" /></a></div><div class="comment-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div class="comment-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Custos Custodum</span>&nbsp;<span class="says" style="box-sizing: border-box;">says</span></div><div class="comment-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px;"><time class="comment-time" datetime="2017-05-19T13:49:14+00:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="comment-time-link" href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/swedish-diplomats-move-national-holiday-to-avoid-clash-with-ramadan#comment-1670917" itemprop="url" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">May 19, 2017 at 1:49 pm</a></time></div></header><br /><div class="comment-content" itemprop="text" style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px;">Think about it – these tenured Leftards are giving the finger both to traditional Swedes and to Jews at the same time, while noisily proclaiming their&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">soumission</i>&nbsp;to the cult of Islam. (And yes, it is Jews that totalitarian Swedish Leftists hate, not “Israelis.”)</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px;">One also suspects that some senior Swedish diplomats stationed in Israel may have decided to decamp to cooler climes in June, so naturally their national day celebration had to give way to their Excellencies’ personal convenience.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/swedish-diplomats-move-national-holiday-to-avoid-clash-with-ramadan</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;">"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a</span><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">delusional, illogical minority,<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and promoted by mainstream media</span><span style="background: white;">which holds forth the premise that it is entirely possible to pick up a<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>piece of shit by the clean</span> <span style="background: white;">end."</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B203_IoGzAQ/WSBue3fUV6I/AAAAAAAAGEs/6ap5q6QQzP8582wCUeOWy4SeNNeZHQ6iwCLcB/s1600/Swedish-holiday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B203_IoGzAQ/WSBue3fUV6I/AAAAAAAAGEs/6ap5q6QQzP8582wCUeOWy4SeNNeZHQ6iwCLcB/s320/Swedish-holiday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">And she'd look good in a hijab!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/05/we-have-winner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-1023608274541519425Sat, 20 May 2017 14:09:00 +00002017-05-20T09:09:52.816-05:00Lest we forget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PVAfqpgtOTY/WSBNk2THTsI/AAAAAAAAGD4/zw7WAb0guMYq2JA2WNgJyq_RvC4sWXX3QCLcB/s1600/Death%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PVAfqpgtOTY/WSBNk2THTsI/AAAAAAAAGD4/zw7WAb0guMYq2JA2WNgJyq_RvC4sWXX3QCLcB/s320/Death%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why we voted for Trump.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">delusional, illogical minority,<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and promoted by mainstream media</span><span style="background: white;">which holds forth the premise that it is entirely possible to pick up a<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>piece of shit by the clean</span> <span style="background: white;">end."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">And why we watch FNC.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">And I say it at the end of every post.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .25in;">"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c-vg7aFS74M/WSBOGx2fCAI/AAAAAAAAGEA/0Dvz9uGmlc0FwfSPze90C07LtsHqVfcewCLcB/s1600/archie-300x229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c-vg7aFS74M/WSBOGx2fCAI/AAAAAAAAGEA/0Dvz9uGmlc0FwfSPze90C07LtsHqVfcewCLcB/s1600/archie-300x229.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/05/lest-we-forget.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-7391502320194324510Sun, 14 May 2017 20:02:00 +00002017-05-14T15:02:24.542-05:00In the beginning there was the investigation.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: -4.5pt; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: right 4.5pt; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3GvGa4obcUI/WRi3UuTk5-I/AAAAAAAAGDc/MvCIp3t-T9812zbUDRnloUDd1NpqQj8AACLcB/s1600/18119194_1321728097882216_1682583345068358976_n%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3GvGa4obcUI/WRi3UuTk5-I/AAAAAAAAGDc/MvCIp3t-T9812zbUDRnloUDd1NpqQj8AACLcB/s320/18119194_1321728097882216_1682583345068358976_n%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the result was a detailed list of Hillary’s crimes but weren’t crimes because according to Comey there was no intent. That was the beginning of Comey’s end. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let us review.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hillary had intent. Her intent was to hide her words and actions. She did so because she hates criticism and is use to getting her way. I am speaking of a woman who was given $100,000 when she needed it, stymied an investigation by "hiding" documents in her closet, fired people who had worked in the WH as travel agents for years and hired her friends as pay back, lied about Benghazi even though there was a video of her and on and on. So she knew establishing a special private email system was wrong. &nbsp;But after a life time of skirting the law and living off influence she felt safe enough to believe she could do what she wanted. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But she is not stupid and she was not uninformed. She knew classified information would be sent over it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She knew what would happen and she knew it would be wrong. But her fear of being caught and knowledge that emails showing how she was selling influence to the presumed to be office of the president to both foreign and US people/organizations would be on the server made her decide to set up the email system. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her intent was to conceal a crime. Selling&nbsp; influence. Pay for play. Quid pro quo.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the proof is not just the demonstrated sending of classified information regarding government information. It is the thousands of emails illegally deleted.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The classified emails are the smoking gun. The missing emails are the bullets. They are the "dog that did not bark." That is the proof of intent to commit a crime. That is the proof of a crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, let's look at some of the players who got pulled into the crime as it started to collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First we have ex President Clinton and the Attorney General of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why in God's name would these two try to meet in secret just before an agency of Lynch's DOJ, the FBI, was set to interview Hillary? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, they didn't think they would be caught and they needed to make sure all the plans were in order. That each knew what was expected of the other.&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why wasn't the interview with Hillary taped?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But it didn't work out. They were seen and in the resulting media coverage and criticism, Lynch was forced to recuse herself. &nbsp;Enter Comey.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The question about Comey’s entran</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">ce and subsequent public actions becomes, “Why?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why did Comey decide to become a prosecutor rather than a investigator? &nbsp;After all, it is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, not the Federal Bureau of Prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you believe, as I do, that Comey is basically a honest man and wanted to do what was right, he was unhappy that Lynch had slipped aside and turned it over to her Deputy AG.&nbsp; I think he had the information, knew that multiple crimes had been committed and knew that if he just sent the information up the chain of command the result would be that a report would be issued &nbsp;no crime had been committed, no intent, just at its worst, a minor error of judgment on Hillary’s part. And no details provided because it contained classified information.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">At that point he decided that the American people should know. That’s why he seized the initiative, gave out all the details so that the public could see just how nefarious Hillary was. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 21.4667px;">https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But to save the FBI as an organization….can you imagine the fire storm that would have descended on the FBI if he had recommended prosecution?......he claimed there was no intent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Democrats mostly loved him. They wished he hadn’t done anything and the Republicans disliked him because they felt he had done nothing.&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But then the information about more emails came forth and he was trapped. If he ignored it and it was proven to be criminal the FBI would be greatly harmed.&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If he announced it the FBI would be shown impartial in its dealings and Hillary would win anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But Hillary did not win and the Democrats hated him. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the rest is history. The Left, with the willing help of a corrupt media, concocted a story about Russia and Trump that is still in play.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now Trump decided that Comey couldn’t continue to lead a fractured organization so he fired Comey.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Left has proven itself to be Mother Of All Hypocrites and attacked Trump for doing what they wanted to do until it was done.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 169.05pt;">(Part of this was published in TalkLeft.)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 169.05pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/05/in-beginning-there-was-investigation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-2311224008819113456Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:37:00 +00002017-04-05T20:37:05.030-05:00What's in a word?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZoLxB8Vypw/WOWbqtCF0YI/AAAAAAAAGCw/AI7pO4pwgyQpEjkQrbXEYwFzLcDdWsjwACLcB/s1600/Taz.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZoLxB8Vypw/WOWbqtCF0YI/AAAAAAAAGCw/AI7pO4pwgyQpEjkQrbXEYwFzLcDdWsjwACLcB/s1600/Taz.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What a day. I’ll spare you the details but I went to the doctor because I got a bit food poisoned last night and needed some advice on what was a good gas breaker and diarrhea plug…and the pain in the center/ right side which had gotten worse on the way to the clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before it was over they were drawing blood and taking X-rays… The diagnosis? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pain was caused by some gall bladder stones. Which, if I live long enough, will have to be dealt with. Pepto-Bismo and Gas-X for the bloating and such.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This wasn’t the first time that the medical profession thought I was having a heart attack. I woke up one morning in Las Vegas with sharp pain shooting down my left arm. A few minutes later I was riding down the street in an ambulance..followed by a lot of tests…finally a doctor came in and asked, “Mr Lewis, have you had herpes before?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“HERPES!!!” I yelled. “No! Why do you ask?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Well, I am glad to tell you,” she said, “You didn’t have a heart attack. You have a herpes outbreak.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She must have seen the panic in my face. “The common name is shingles… The medical name is Herpes Zoster….see those little red dots on the back side of your left shoulder?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt; tab-stops: 472.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To cap the day off I had to walk a mile to the hospital’s cab stand to catch a cab back to my hotel.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/04/whats-in-word.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-6940048102967604378Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:23:00 +00002017-03-27T16:29:45.938-05:00Counting chickens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AmElaXmOrsQ/WNmCondWRdI/AAAAAAAAGCI/rpjKMm2F1tEPjD0VW0GvmGawTFv8tHFpACLcB/s1600/Old%2Bman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AmElaXmOrsQ/WNmCondWRdI/AAAAAAAAGCI/rpjKMm2F1tEPjD0VW0GvmGawTFv8tHFpACLcB/s320/Old%2Bman.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As you can tell, if you have read the previous post, I have suffered a serious case of “counting your chickens before they hatch.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Believe it or not, the Republicans, one more time, found a way to lose. They managed to let Obamacare survive.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is hard to believe but they managed to demonstrate, again, that they are controlled by the “I’d rather be Right,” wing of the party. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I mean they almost nominated a presidential candidate, take your pick, that Hillary would have beat like a drum. But having paid attention to what the broad middle part of their party wanted, they again decided to lecture it and go against the President that the middle elected.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Actually, I can set this one out. I have single payer health care insurance.&nbsp; I have Medicare.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not really. Medicare is not a single payer system. You have a 20% deductible for doctor services, a healthy deductible for hospital services, drugs they may or not be covered by the Part D Drug coverage and then there’s ER charges, oxygen, blood, etc., etc. And then there’s the monthly premium and I probably missed some charges.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OTOH Medicaid for the poor is single payer. The taxpayer pays.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And now the Democrats are bringing back the single payer system concept. But not how to pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have long supported a single payer system modeled on Medicare but expanded to 100% payment by the government. And included in that would be dental, hearing &nbsp;and vision coverage including devices. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yeah, I know that will be expensive. The question then falls back to how to pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Left will come up with some type of income tax increase. Which, of course, assures failure because the people already having employer provided insurance will strongly oppose paying for someone else’s healthcare. They’ll note, quite accurately, that a family of 4 pays no federal tax on income of up to about $50,000 and others have the so-called Earned Income credit.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Right will oppose it on “principle.” Most of that being that Medicaid, if they can get it, covers the poor already and the rich can pay for their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The problem is that all the payees are somewhat right. &nbsp;People paying shouldn’t be paying again.&nbsp; And while the obvious benefits of government, common defense, infrastructure, etc., can have their payment justified by a graduated income tax by the saying that the benefits cover everyone, when you start to call for specific benefits covering a specific class then it can’t be justified. And that’s what mean’s testing does. And while welfare can be justified as a “hand up” it falls into disrespect when the “hand up” stretches into generations and such dubious things as giving aid to illegal aliens and legal immigrants/refugees. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So the obvious fair way of paying for healthcare is a federal sales tax.&nbsp; And I say by a sales tax that is collected at the point of sale so that the citizen can see the tax on a daily basis. It should never be a VAT which is hidden.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course the Left will scream fairness. Why should the poor be taxed on a necessity such as food because they pay a higher percentage of their income for food. Well, just exempt certain items. Unprepared food, utilities, used cars over 5 years of age….and I’m sure I missed some.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And since no one will be purchasing healthcare insurance a lot of people will get a raise, including business owners and others who had been purchasing insurance for someone else. They can be made to transfer all previous payments made to the insurance companies to the employees that use to receive the benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So let’s give the Demos a round of applause for thinking about and a hearty chorus of boos for wanting to introduce a plan that will never pass…and both sides nasty hisses for bowing to their special interests and never never never actually doing something that helps everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/03/counting-chickens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-3537774636656849034Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:22:00 +00002017-03-07T11:22:29.262-06:00About replacing Obamacare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YBGVDHLPZkQ/WL7sEC9AYVI/AAAAAAAAGBg/f_YcLnIYvSU4bIbUJf5PGYPSNZQkbi8bwCLcB/s1600/ATT00016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YBGVDHLPZkQ/WL7sEC9AYVI/AAAAAAAAGBg/f_YcLnIYvSU4bIbUJf5PGYPSNZQkbi8bwCLcB/s320/ATT00016.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the really good things about replacing Obamacare is the ability to purchase insurance across stateliness. IOW, a national market versus a state market which in turn is broken down into Zip Codes within the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What this does is run up the costs in some areas and down in others. And since it is done on such a small group the results are drastically uneven prices.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember insurance is about spreading risks, and the costs, across large groups of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now we are being told that this change to a national market can’t be done due to some arcane Senate/House rules. But, we are assured it will be added later.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Watch this one. The Insurance Commissioners across various states don’t like it because they lose power. The insurance companies don’t like it because it adds competition.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/03/about-replacing-obamacare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-707167279418820249Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:04:00 +00002017-02-16T22:13:54.188-06:00A lesson in morals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yx4FFDuZ8hM/WKZ2GUpt8YI/AAAAAAAAGAs/H0Yw1l2fofYlSxRFrhdDHWrj93ANbDx6ACLcB/s1600/conspiracy-bar-grill1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yx4FFDuZ8hM/WKZ2GUpt8YI/AAAAAAAAGAs/H0Yw1l2fofYlSxRFrhdDHWrj93ANbDx6ACLcB/s320/conspiracy-bar-grill1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">The deal is this. The Left wants to claim that Flynn did wrong and but for the illegal leaks of someone in the intelligence agencies, no one would know.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is a claim that two wrongs make a right. “We had to destroy the village to save it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">So the question is as old as sin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who will watch the watchers?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Given that the FISA court was contacted when a US citizen was listened to, and we have no way of knowing that, and the conversation was assumed to have some illegality about it, you would hope and assume that it would be referred to the DOJ.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">The DOJ would then try and determine if the conversation was illegal. Either way, if the person was on the President's staff/employment, you would assume he would be informed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><u><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nowhere in that chain do we have any reason whatsoever for any information to be leaked to the press or anyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now, IF the actions of the President, in the eyes of the AG, were found to be unacceptable then the AG should go public and resign. If that doesn't happen then others within the chain should go public and resign.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">The press and the voters can then become involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">But that isn't what is happening. What we have are people who are political opponents of the President trying to harm the President from the shadows.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">That's wrong. They weren’t elected and by doing so they send a chill through our political processes and reveal to the enemy our ability to collect intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">And yes, if the "going public" is required I understand that the individuals will be harmed, if not physically, then professionally.<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>But that comes with the job just as was the possibility of being killed in training or combat comes with being in the military or any other job that entails “defending the Constitution<u>."<o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Simply put, if you don’t want such responsibilities then don’t take the job.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 9.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 21.4667px;">(Part of this was previously published in www.TalkLeft.com.</span></span></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-lesson-in-morals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-3460064505019903322Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:40:00 +00002017-02-16T21:35:02.555-06:00“South Carolina 6th Graders Learn Five Pillars of Islam,” by Trey Sanchez,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tL_bWivhW4w/WJ-SJMggcMI/AAAAAAAAF_4/PWUsxoamlm4Y8AkoiduclFW0REuwKzEfACLcB/s1600/Death%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tL_bWivhW4w/WJ-SJMggcMI/AAAAAAAAF_4/PWUsxoamlm4Y8AkoiduclFW0REuwKzEfACLcB/s320/Death%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 58.5pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“TruthRevolt has kept a careful eye on this phenomenon, reporting on instances such as in<a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ca-school-teaching-islamic-faith-middle-schoolers" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff5126; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">California</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/high-school-history-project-design-muslim-prayer-rug-recite-first-pillar-islam" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff5126; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Florida</span></a>, Tennessee, and<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/school-kids-sing-allahu-akbar-holiday-concert" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff5126; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Minnesota</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>where students either sang songs about Ramadan (complete with the lyrics “Allahu Akbar”), designed a Muslim prayer rug, or wrote down the five pillars of Islam, including “all people must submit to Allah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 18pt; margin: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The latest has occurred in Summerville, South Carolina at Alston Middle School, where 6th graders learned about the five pillars and were instructed on the “correct” interpretation of verses from the Koran.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">And here’s the lie they’re being told.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Islam is a religion of (peace). If I believe in Islam, I am called a (Muslim). In the Islamic religion, we call God (Allah). I may dress differently than other kids. I feel (bad) that a few people of my religion committed terrorist acts. I do not believe in terrorists’ idea of a ‘holy war.’”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">Maybe true for one kid. But definitively not true for some &nbsp;members of the group.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“One parent told a local news station that permission should’ve been asked for before giving a lesson on religious values.</span>”<o:p></o:p></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">Gee, you think? You have to wonder where the parents's heads are at. They’re definitely not paying attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">http://pamelageller.com/2017/02/south-carolina-6th-graders-learn-five-pillars-islam.html/<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-idvteazi9fo/WJ-SzlDX_-I/AAAAAAAAGAA/v_buyxvskU04AHRdqGp11QUrk3VBu8ctgCLcB/s1600/fallingman-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-idvteazi9fo/WJ-SzlDX_-I/AAAAAAAAGAA/v_buyxvskU04AHRdqGp11QUrk3VBu8ctgCLcB/s320/fallingman-lg.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><br /></div><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/south-carolina-6th-graders-learn-five.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-8350758246179489929Sun, 12 Feb 2017 02:27:00 +00002018-05-13T16:45:47.543-05:00Trump and the Confederate Flag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EIJWg7VLC8s/WJ_G5zxeGtI/AAAAAAAAGAQ/5fU_qYkf5rM7EVPA0g5V4ITmOMT1plh_ACLcB/s1600/Can%2Byou%2Bsee%2Bwhat%2527s%2Bhappening.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EIJWg7VLC8s/WJ_G5zxeGtI/AAAAAAAAGAQ/5fU_qYkf5rM7EVPA0g5V4ITmOMT1plh_ACLcB/s320/Can%2Byou%2Bsee%2Bwhat%2527s%2Bhappening.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before I start let me say that I am not a fan of “Ancestory.” I have never worn a pair of lederhosen and the cold air that would flow over my more tender parts caused by wearing a kilt leads me to wonder about the judgment of grown men who prance around explaining they were confused about who their ancestors were but have now been saved by the magic of genetic analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The best I can tell, based on family stories, is that I have ancestors. Quite a few in fact. Since a generation, the average time it takes to produce children, is about 25 years, then if I go back 250 years, 10 generations, then I have 2048 great, great, great, etc., grandparents.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And since I don’t have three eyes and twitch when I walk I believe it was a diverse group. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On a more recent note the story is that one of my great granddaddies fought for the South, was wounded in the Battle of Corinth, captured, escaped, married a Indian woman and lived more or less happily ever after. There’s more to it but since I foresee your eyes slamming shut I will spare you the details.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But one of the more interesting things is that he was born and raised on a small farm in western Kentucky and, like some 90 plus percent of Confederate fighters owned no slaves. Given that standing up and shooting at each other using 58 caliber rifles, dying of diseases, starving on short rations, freezing in the cold and other assorted ways of dying is quite nasty, the question is, “Why in the world would the 90% do this for the 10%?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That question has been asked for years by the more thoughtful among us. My great grandfather had no “skin in the game” so why did he fight?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me ask you people who claim it was to keep slaves. Really? He had no slaves. The answer is more complex than “slavery.”&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We can start with why did the North Vietnam peasant fight to install communism? Why did the average German fight to keep Hitler in power. Why did the Germanic tribes resist Caesar?&nbsp; Why does the average Muslim fight?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The answer is so simple that all the “jerks under pressure,” aka “experts,” will reject it. Because the enemy was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, there is more to it than that. The 10% manipulate the 90% through various methods. The radical Islamic leaders use religion. The West has been very effective in using “patriotism.” &nbsp;But the base is “because they were there.” Roosevelt, even though it was obvious we had to rescue Europe, was wise enough to wait until the homeland was attacked. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On a side note Bush did nothing until 9/11 but by 2008 the surrender monkeys and America haters managed to help the Islamist enough to get us into a SOFA agreement in Iraq that Obama gratefully signed thus birthing ISIS. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course any dummy could foresee that. Even me. Here’s a comment I made in&nbsp; 2007 on the Left’s website, TalkLeft.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(169, 172, 153); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="47"><b><span style="color: #006699; font-size: 14.0pt;">“tworivers</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;(</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.talkleft.com/comments/2007/4/27/122514/251/47?mode=alone;showrate=1#47"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">none / 0</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">) (</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.talkleft.com/comments/2007/4/27/122514/251/47#47"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">#47</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">)<br />by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.talkleft.com/user/jimakaPPJ"><span style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">jimakaPPJ</span></a>&nbsp;on Sat Apr 28, 2007 at 08:52:16 AM CST&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 240); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">Actually we could argue over the reasons, but so what.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(247, 247, 240); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F0; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">The issue now is that when the Surrender Party pulls out of Iraq the world will see us as weak.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F0; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F0; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">Weak people and lambs get attacked.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F0; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F0; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;">But I digress. Let’s get back to </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">the Confederate flag, diversity and Vanderbilt. </span><span style="color: #444433; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just as I don’t wear lederhosen or kilts; I do not fly the Confederate flag. Never have. But, unlike the Left wingers who trill diversity’s false song, I understand why some people do.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To frame that, you’re going to have to understand that the “War Between the States” wasn’t over when Lee surrendered. In the phase called “Reconstruction” the south was overrun with Carpet Baggers with various amounts of political influence who took power and did various illegal and immoral things. This resurrected the “because they are here” base. The result? The KKK and associated pieces of trash who wanted to get their power back. That is the base reason that the leaders of the local KKK’s were the power holders and brokers in southern society. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The results were just like the “War Between the States.”&nbsp; The Yankee’s were the cause because they were, if not physically then in spirit, “there” and were the reason that Brother died at Shiloh and Uncle is crippled and we have “10 cents cotton and 40 cents meat and how in the world can a poor man eat?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The South was devastated and remained a rural agricultural society while the North lived through the age of the Rockefeller and Vanderbilt peasant rulers and while Teddy Roosevelt had Southerners in his “Rough Riders” the reforms he preached hardly made an impact below the Mason Dixon line. It took a couple of wars and a revolution in agricultural equipment making the poor white and black sharecroppers unneeded and &nbsp;forced to leave the “frosty morns” of the South and move to the soot covered &nbsp;snow of the industrial north. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Think I overstate? Well, drive south on US 61 from Memphis into what was once the poorest county in the US, Tunica…that also had the highest number of millionaires per capita.&nbsp; What you will see now is monster tractors tilling thousands of acres while the grand children shoot and kill each other in Chicago. But the millionaires are mostly still there along with a new set. Casino types making a living off welfare money from the Memphis area.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I’m getting ahead of myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Starting in the 50’s, business being business, factories followed the Mississippi river down to the cheap labor and started locating in the south. In the small town and surrounding county I live in by the mid 60’s there were 5 factories employing some 7000 people. And compared to chopping cotton these were good paying jobs. Some were union some not. New homes were being built. Downtown’s were thriving. Businesses were opening. Population was expanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But by the mid 70’s the trend was starting.&nbsp; Stores in the city core were closing in the face of competition from the big department stores in the expanded shopping center 15 miles away. A factory closed because it couldn’t match the lower price from foreign competition and by the end of the 70’s the largest employer closed and merged two divisions into one. Again foreign competition. 3000 jobs just gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the Republican leadership didn’t do a damn thing. Nothing. Zero. Nada.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, wait. They did managed to get together with the Democrats and open the immigration floodgates <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In between times we fought the Vietnam War and the Democrats surrendered while the Republicans wrapped themselves in the flag. When communism collapsed the radical islamists hopped up to become the villain of the day and Bush declared a “War On Terror “ that had been started by members of “The Religion of Peace.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yeah. I also find that confusing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the immigrants just kept on coming. Eleven million illegal and about a million a year legal.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before long the “trades” were wiped out along with meat packing, yard care and almost any service type work that didn’t require good English and was mostly out of the public’s eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The WOT continued and Obama was elected and the economy collapsed and it was all the Republicans fault and don’t say Merry Christmas and we now have more genders that Carter had Little Liver pills and the jobs kept on disappearing while the unemployment rate kept on rising and Obamacare helped some and hurt many but don’t mention Universal Health Care because it doesn’t work in Canada and the rest of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We even lied on our Presidential Approval Poll.&nbsp; I mean when everyone says the country is going in the wrong direction but the President is at a 55%.....they gotta be lying…one way or the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So with everyone but our Dear Leaders recognizing that we have more problems than a pregnant nun the election comes and they offer us more of the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And they can’t understand why Trump won. Or why some folks fly the Confederate flag.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is simple.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let me educate you. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is because “they” are here. And we are damn well tired of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">&nbsp;</span>"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper</div>http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/trump-and-confederate-flag.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-7251416442892346954Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:55:00 +00002017-02-11T11:55:05.147-06:00No judge, you're wrong.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-htcZlu7qOPU/WJ9PXjFWj9I/AAAAAAAAF_g/ooJwFnd1N9U-XYXohHSFuCeRGP1_qrNagCLcB/s1600/torture1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-htcZlu7qOPU/WJ9PXjFWj9I/AAAAAAAAF_g/ooJwFnd1N9U-XYXohHSFuCeRGP1_qrNagCLcB/s320/torture1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">And Lefties try to justify anything to hurt the country.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">“WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal judge who halted President Donald Trump's travel ban was wrong in stating that no one from the seven countries targeted in Trump's order has been arrested for extremism in the United States since the 2001 terrorist attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Just last October, an Iraqi refugee living in Texas pleaded guilty to attempting to provide support to the Islamic State group, accused of taking tactical training and wanting to blow himself up in an act of martyrdom. In November, a Somali refugee injured 11 in a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University, and he surely would have been arrested had he not been killed by an officer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">snip<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">“He asked a Justice Department lawyer how many arrests of foreign nationals from the countries have occurred since 9/11. When the lawyer said she didn't know, Robart answered his own question: "Let me tell, you, the answer to that is none, as best I can tell. You're here arguing on behalf of someone that says we have to protect the United States from these individuals coming from these countries and there's no support for that."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Now isn’t that sweet. He asks a question that has nothing to do with law and appears to be looking for motive and/or evidence. Yet Appeals courts are supposed to look at the law only. They cannot consider evidence or motive.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F0; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">And then we have the family thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F7F7F0; line-height: 14.4pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">“All told, Kurzman said, 23 percent of Muslim Americans involved with extremist plots since Sept. 11 had family backgrounds from the seven countries.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/ap-fact-check-no-arrests-from-7-nations-in-travel-ban-nope/">http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/ap-fact-check-no-arrests-from-7-nations-in-travel-ban-nope/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QWb_j5OBm0s/WJ9P540UcWI/AAAAAAAAF_o/o6xxlKwEIxoTDoXth7cQLfrdGPWhzSfwgCLcB/s1600/wt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QWb_j5OBm0s/WJ9P540UcWI/AAAAAAAAF_o/o6xxlKwEIxoTDoXth7cQLfrdGPWhzSfwgCLcB/s320/wt.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #444433; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/no-judge-youre-wrong.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-978012101461231597Thu, 09 Feb 2017 03:51:00 +00002017-02-08T21:51:08.908-06:00JobsThis came from a letter published in the Tennessean. Sorry but the link has been lost.<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;">Lawrence wrote: “<span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">First, trashing NAFTA in retaliation for the loss of jobs over the last two decades since the pact was approved will not bring them back. Most have been lost to automation, not Mexico.&nbsp; Some jobs that initially went to Mexico have moved from there to other countries or have been replaced by robotics.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Not very logical. If the jobs had been lost to automation then the factories, with robots, would still be here with installation, maintenance, programming and control done by US workers. Albeit the number of workers would have been smaller the pay would have been higher. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">It is sad to say but far too many companies have broken the social contract they had with US citizens and have opted to flee to other countries for one reason only. Higher profits. This has been augmented by tying upper management, especially CEO/Presidents, pay to profits resulting in a ratio of them of 204 to 1<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.glassdoor.com/research/ceo-pay-ratio/<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And at the same time, those fleeing leave behind companies that use illegal workers with impunity. Construction comes immediately to mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump’s plan to close the border and stop the outflow of our factories may or may not work. But at least he will try. And those who try and stop him will no longer be in the shadows but will known to all. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">His victory sends a message to every politician who wants to keep their “jobs” that the world has changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">His victory sends a message to every supporter of the status quo, which has flooded the country with illegal aliens, that they will be opposed and their arguments incorrect,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27.0pt;"><span style="background: #FAFAFA; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">His victory also sends a message to every CEO/President that the days of robber baron like actions are gone. Keep the social contract. Work to keep people employed as well as reasonable profits for the stock holder while graciously accepting a salary that is not outrageously high.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/jobs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-3786294031047332916Sat, 04 Feb 2017 02:25:00 +00002017-02-03T20:33:58.877-06:00From the propaganda outlet, the "Tennessean."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HNgXrfu7MuE/WJU7Pud6TjI/AAAAAAAAF_E/toUVWSsuPM8NmWI1M8pDoscKGY_1c6gaACLcB/s1600/ATT00195.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HNgXrfu7MuE/WJU7Pud6TjI/AAAAAAAAF_E/toUVWSsuPM8NmWI1M8pDoscKGY_1c6gaACLcB/s320/ATT00195.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The following comment is based on this piece of propaganda published in the Tennessean.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/02/02/m-daughter-iranian-immigrant/97355434/<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Roxanna wrote: “<span style="color: #333333;">I am the daughter of an Iranian immigrant. My father came to the United States in the 1970s shortly before the Iranian revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">He was young, full of ideals and dreams. He believed in America. Had my father been banned from coming to the U.S. in the 1970s, he would never have earned his master’s degree.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim writes: “I am the son of a West Tennessee sharecropper. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">He was young and although poor he had ideals and dreams. While your father’s parents were living in safety in Iran my father volunteered for the Marines and went to fight the Imperialist Japanese.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Roxanna wrote: “<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">My father met my mother while he was studying at Middle Tennessee State University. My mother was a small-town, all-American girl who grew up with small-town American values. My parents met while at school and fell in love."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Jim writes: My mother and father met while he was home from CCC camp where he had gone to make some money to send home to his family. He returned to the camp and when he was released they were married.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">When WWII was over my father returned to West Tennessee and farming. He was summoned to fight the communists in Korea but was released because of his age. He was a good farmer and managed to purchase a small farm. The country had not yet exported its factories and jobs so both worked and “made a crop” that all three of us worked on to pay off the mortgage and “make a living.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Roxanna wrote: “</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">I studied German and political science, and had the good fortune to receive a Fulbright Award in 2009. I moved to Vienna, Austria, and was able to teach English and share the Gospel with the people of Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">After my Fulbright, I moved to Memphis, where I teach today. Had my father been banned from coming to America, there would be kids in Memphis who were not constantly reminded that they are special, loved, smart, gifted, and able to do anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">There were very few programs to help a share cropper’s son go to college so I joined the Navy and proceeded to do my small part in fighting the Cold War. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">As part of that, the US supported the Shah coming to power in Iran, keeping the Soviets out. I suspect that your father must have had parents who were well off or else he would not have been able to come here to attend school and travel back and forth. Had the communists been allowed to come to power he most likely would not have came here to school and “<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">there would be kids in Memphis who were not constantly reminded that they are special, loved, smart, gifted, and able to do anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">At this point it should be apparent that our experiences regarding the country are not similar. I went through the college of hard knocks and you were educated with the taxpayer’s money.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">I think I got the best education.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Roxanna wrote: “The hope that our beloved Lady Liberty offers is a hope for everyone. Men and women like my father come here to make this country a better place. They come because they believe in the golden beacon that welcomes them from the shore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">I watched the most openly Christian president, Jimmy Carter, fail to support an ally in Iran, and seen Iran become the birthplace of the modern radical islamist terrorist. Since then we have had steadily increasing attacks by Muslim terrorists. Thousands have lost their lives in the US, and hundreds of thousands around the world while Muslim “refugees” rape and riot in Europe and demand special rights and treatment in the US.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">So much for Christian love.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">You spout utter nonsense. If Muslims had been banned from the US 9/11 would not have happened. Neither would the deadly attacks in Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, Chattanooga, and Little Rock, happened and tax payer money used to build Muslim prayer facilities in St Paul schools, companies sued for asking Muslim employees to drive trucks with beer inside and a host of other Muslim demands occurred. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">And while you emote words of tenderness and tolerance the Pew group has polls that show 21% of US Muslims supporting extremism.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.people-press.org/2011/08/30/muslim-americans-no-signs-of-growth-in-alienation-or-support-for-extremism/?src=prc-headline"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">http://www.people-press.org/2011/08/30/muslim-americans-no-signs-of-growth-in-alienation-or-support-for-extremism/?src=prc-headline</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">And then<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">“51% of U.S. Muslims want Sharia; 60% of young Muslims more loyal to Islam than to U.S.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">And </span><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;“CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/51-of-u-s-muslims-want-sharia-60-of-young-muslims-more-loyal-to-islam-than-to-u-s">https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/51-of-u-s-muslims-want-sharia-60-of-young-muslims-more-loyal-to-islam-than-to-u-s</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Uh, don’t worry Ibrahim, the only people not knowing what you are up to are members of Roxanna’s ilk. Sadly, their awakening will be vicious, bloody and life ending for many of their fellow citizens. It is already happening in Europe, especially France.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">So please go away and actually educate yourself, Roxanna. We’re in a religious war and the other side doesn’t care that we’re too dumb to know.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OMXLugtCRvo/WJU7lOwAehI/AAAAAAAAF_I/qd102tWmAGQraePzYRjKWB1D9_EG-C9kgCLcB/s1600/fallingman-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OMXLugtCRvo/WJU7lOwAehI/AAAAAAAAF_I/qd102tWmAGQraePzYRjKWB1D9_EG-C9kgCLcB/s320/fallingman-lg.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">And if you work in tall buildings learn how to fly.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="background: #FAFAFA; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 49.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/02/from-propaganda-outlet-tennessean.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-4939424453851098608Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:44:00 +00002017-02-07T21:54:57.758-06:00Keep your enemies close. Your friends closer.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1F3sUS1eXiU/WIvbO-Rr2BI/AAAAAAAAF-I/fZ8KgorSIAU-ii4k30v8bJE75lEtyIoaACLcB/s1600/Death%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1F3sUS1eXiU/WIvbO-Rr2BI/AAAAAAAAF-I/fZ8KgorSIAU-ii4k30v8bJE75lEtyIoaACLcB/s320/Death%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWest.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An enemy is an enemy and can be combated. Someone who would be your friend but is just so dead wrong on three important things is far worse than enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/britains-theresa-may-u-s-islam-peaceful-globalism-good-climate-change-priority.html/">http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/britains-theresa-may-u-s-islam-peaceful-globalism-good-climate-change-priority.html/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><h3><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">“BRITAIN’S THERESA MAY IN U.S.: ISLAM IS PEACEFUL, GLOBALISM GOOD, CLIMATE CHANGE A PRIORITY<o:p></o:p></span></h3><br /><header class="articleheader" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #262626; font-family: 'Open Sans', Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by Raheem Kassam,<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/26/britains-theresa-may-in-u-s-uses-daesh-instead-of-islamic-state-proclaims-belief-in-liberty-despite-expanding-uk-surveillance-state/" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #ff5126;">Breitbart,</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>January 26, 2017:<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">British Prime Minister Theresa May&nbsp;used her speech in Philadelphia to needle the new Trump administration on a number of issues ranging from globalism to climate change, Islam, and even to defending the European Union.</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div></header><br /><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Theresa May isn’t fooling anyone. She doesn’t just talk out of two sides of her mouth, she talks out of twenty. Her conflicting position would flummox Gumby.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">According to May, Islam is peaceful. Jihad imam get legal aid to fight to remain in the UK, but Theresa May banned me from the UK. Robert Spencer is banned. Why? Because we oppose</span><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"> jihad terror and sharia.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 40.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/01/keep-yor-enemies-close-your-friends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-6332423915809555100Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:47:00 +00002017-01-23T12:47:07.588-06:00Dumb and dumber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k63WioxkYO4/WIZOhLZKNSI/AAAAAAAAF94/HbzLW-gPtskvDGTSzhe6CmXGjKV-J_xuwCLcB/s1600/ATT00195.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k63WioxkYO4/WIZOhLZKNSI/AAAAAAAAF94/HbzLW-gPtskvDGTSzhe6CmXGjKV-J_xuwCLcB/s320/ATT00195.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the life of me I cannot understand why those we actually call “educators” are so out of touch with reality. Is there any living and breathing person with an IQ above room temperature who doesn’t &nbsp;know how bad Sharia Law is for females?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet here we have a middle school actually assigning this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><u>“<span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626;">The worksheet, assigned to seventh-graders at Highland Hills Middle School, presents a passage written by a fictional 20-year-old Saudi woman named Ahlima, who feels “very fortunate” to live under Sharia law in Saudi Arabia. She writes about how she will soon become a man’s second wife and explains her modest dress: “I understand that some foreigners see our dress as a way of keeping women from being equal, but … I find Western women’s clothing to be horribly immodest.”</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And when challenged, what is the response?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><u><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Bill Briscoe, a spokesman for the district, said the curriculum is being reviewed in light of the complaints, per district policy.</span>”</u><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Uh, Bill, what’s there to review? It’s propaganda. Pure and simple. Why are you pouring it into the &nbsp;middle school students’ unfinished brains?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And what does the woman who created this insipid fake piece of drivel think?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><u><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The same worksheet, created by InspirEd Educators Inc., caused a controversy when it was used at a middle school in Smyrna, Ga., in 2011. Sharon Coletti, the creator of the worksheet and president of<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://inspirededucators.com/about/" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="color: #fc3200;">InspirEd Educators</span></a>, said she received death threats and was accused of “indoctrinating” children at the time.<span style="background: #F9F9F9;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626;"><u>"Coletti, who is a Christian and longtime educator, said in an interview with the Courier-Journal that she wasn’t trying to indoctrinate anyone. She said she was just trying to create a lesson that was more engaging than dry, expository text pulled from a textbook.<o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="color: #262626;"><u>“If I can shape something so that kids have to decide for themselves, once I get them involved in the situation, they never forget it,” she said…</u>..”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626;">http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/indiana-public-school-worksheet-praises-sharia-cloth-coffin-women.html/<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626;">Yes, Coletti. We understand. The problem is you don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><br /></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popperhttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/01/dumb-and-dumber.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-4789644781836235589Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:32:00 +00002017-01-23T10:32:56.968-06:00Karma strikes!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every now and then someone acting like an asshole get what they deserve.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 22.5pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TwFJ86q5nbg/WIYvuIT0G6I/AAAAAAAAF9o/hlobmIT15WgChR9O_TSUkboQDabJS0VBACLcB/s1600/375601_282873858486436_386013118_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TwFJ86q5nbg/WIYvuIT0G6I/AAAAAAAAF9o/hlobmIT15WgChR9O_TSUkboQDabJS0VBACLcB/s320/375601_282873858486436_386013118_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I told you I would like him to change seats with somebody…” the woman said, before the flight attendant cut her off, “Well, you don’t have that right.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 18pt; margin: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">The woman then began to berate the Trump supporter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 18pt; margin: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;">“You pretend you have the moral high ground but you put that man’s finger on the nuclear button. That man doesn’t believe in climate change,” she said, using air quotes for dramatic effect.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 18pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 18pt;">As a gate attendant attempted to intervene, she was unrelenting………….</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">“Will you grab your belongings and come with me?” the attendant asked her.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">She then attempted to use her recently-deceased mother-in-law for why she should remain on the plane and be unaccountable for her behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Refusing to leave the plane, she said, “I paid for this seat and I’m sitting here. He’s in my space.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">(Note the word “space.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: #F9F9F9; color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Another video, taken from across the aisle, showed the woman sneering at the Trump supporter, then at passengers behind her before police ordered her off the plane.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/video-woman-freaks-trump-supporter-train.html/<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">Needless to say the plane was flying to Seattle.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">I lived in Seattle, actually the ‘burb of Redmond, for right at 5 years back in the early 80’s. Loved it! Lousy climate but great people. Not especially conservative but not all that Leftie and mostly laid back. The local sports anchor on the NBC affiliate use to opine “Remember folks, it’s just a game!” when the Seahawks took a drubbing. And going to a Mariners game was mindful of going to a Little League game. People chatting, visiting, waving at friends and occasionally cheering when one of the players actually made a great play.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">So what happened?&nbsp; Why did a nice place to live turn into this?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">There was a newspaper guy, an old guy, who wrote a column for the Seattle Times. Seems like he drove around with his dog and wrote stories about this and that. &nbsp;Seems like he had a RV… And he was dead set against letting foreigners from California in.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’m sure he’s dead now and I left long ago. I’m glad he didn’t live to see what the place has turned into.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/01/karma-strikes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-997935253204837065Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:01:00 +00002017-01-22T14:01:35.044-06:00I hear you knocking...but you can't come in<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.6pt; margin-right: 0in;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Do foreign nationals have the right to enter our country with the intent to demonstrate and try and change our laws, customs and elections?</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.6pt; margin-right: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">“The plan was simple. Montrealer Sasha Dyck and some friends would drive to Washington to join the Women's March.&nbsp;But when the six Canadians and two French nationals&nbsp;reached the border at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, in Quebec, they ran into trouble.</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">U.S. border agents asked what they planned to do in the United States. “We said we were going to the Women’s March on Saturday and they said, ‘Well, you’re going to have to pull over,’&nbsp;” Dyck&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/20/womens-march-canada-protesters-denied-entry-us"><span style="color: #1955a5; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">told the Guardian</span></a>. Agents then searched their car and examined their cellphones, according to Dyck. Each member of the group was fingerprinted and had their pictures taken.</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Finally, after two hours, the agents told Dyck and his friends to turn around. “They said, ‘You’re headed home today,’&nbsp;” Dyck told the Guardian. Officials warned that they’d be arrested if they tried to cross at a different spot this weekend, Dyck said. “And that was it, they didn’t give a lot of justification.”</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/21/u-s-border-agents-turned-away-canadians-hoping-to-come-to-the-womens-march/?utm_term=.b79b20e336a6"><span style="color: #cc0000;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/21/u-s-border-agents-turned-away-canadians-hoping-to-come-to-the-womens-march/?utm_term=.b79b20e336a6</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Uh, Dyck. They didn’t have to give you justification. You don’t have the right to come into our country for any reason.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">I mean, the Left is having kittens over Russia, supposedly, hacking a political organization’ s email system and passing it on to WikiLeaks for distribution to the Wide Wide World via the WWW. Why? Because it is an attempt to influence.&nbsp; Now that being true…..what is demonstrating in the streets?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Now I know that foreigners within the US have the same rights for due process within our legal system. But those rights are limited. &nbsp;For example….They don’t have the right to vote. &nbsp;They don’t have the right to drive a car without an acceptable license….Or<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">But there is the First Amendment that says.....”…..&nbsp;&nbsp;or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">The crux of this is the words “..right of the people.” Who are the “people?” &nbsp;Well, the Second&nbsp; Amendment says, “…..the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><br /><span style="background: white;"><br />That makes it plain. “The people are citizens.” Various laws/regulations make it plain what the words mean.</span><br /><span style="background: white;"><br /><b><i>“In general, non-immigrant aliens are forbidden to possess any firearms or ammunition. But there is a big exception for a legal alien who:</i></b></span><br /><b><i><span style="background: white;">...is in possession of a hunting license or permit lawfully issued in the United States</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span style="background: white;">(See</span>&nbsp;<span style="background: white;"><a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&amp;docid=Cite:+18USC922"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Title 18, USC Chapter 44, Section 922</span></a>, part (y)(2) for details.)</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span style="background: white;"><br />Green-card holders and immigrant aliens who do not yet have their green card are both okay under federal law, although many people (including gun dealers, law enforcement officers, etc.) are not aware of the distinction or the hunting license exception, and erroneously think that either you have a green card, or you can't have guns.</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span style="background: white;"><br />Also, non-citizen cannot purchase a firearm from a federally licensed firerams dealer unless they have been a resident of their state for 90 days. So, no, tourists on short visits cannot walk into guns stores to get "protection" during their trip. Sorry. (I've been asked that multiple times.)”</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><a href="http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm"><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.35pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 22.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 15.35pt;">So you can’t come into this country with the intent of demonstrating and trying to influence us in the relationship with our government anymore than you hack the DNC legally.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 15.35pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pu_2KrlG83Y/WIUPjzcwf6I/AAAAAAAAF9Y/jP91LekaMgsE5tLDcxyNLaz6A9IZhpbegCLcB/s1600/dog_grin.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pu_2KrlG83Y/WIUPjzcwf6I/AAAAAAAAF9Y/jP91LekaMgsE5tLDcxyNLaz6A9IZhpbegCLcB/s320/dog_grin.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 15.35pt;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .5in;"><br /></div><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazinehttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-hear-you-knockingbut-you-cant-come-in_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475549107746495899.post-6142306440501203462Sun, 08 Jan 2017 15:35:00 +00002017-01-08T09:35:25.381-06:00Been ice knowing you<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kEaJGT5PKOY/WHJbT6ywsqI/AAAAAAAAF8g/Ezs37mWDz4kO_keJgmUP6RNGvXtkLuqSQCLcB/s1600/freakincold2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kEaJGT5PKOY/WHJbT6ywsqI/AAAAAAAAF8g/Ezs37mWDz4kO_keJgmUP6RNGvXtkLuqSQCLcB/s320/freakincold2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />It was 6 degrees at 6 AM...18 degrees at 9 AM<br /><br />If this keeps up it will be 54 at noon, 108 at 3 PM and 216 at 6...<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tZq0q8xzgKw/WHJcHP6PzZI/AAAAAAAAF8k/EyblIXc_dL4TayZdjzAhEPT_prnpZ6o4gCLcB/s1600/FreeHeal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tZq0q8xzgKw/WHJcHP6PzZI/AAAAAAAAF8k/EyblIXc_dL4TayZdjzAhEPT_prnpZ6o4gCLcB/s1600/FreeHeal.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper<br /><br />&nbsp;“It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazinehttp://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2017/01/been-ice-knowing-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ppjakaJim)5